>Maybe, I am missing something here.
**** That is not a 'maybe', Ram. You are missing what is staring
on your face :-).
Extremism and violence do not fall from the sky on some dark and
stormy night, on an 'ounxir endhaar raati'. They brew over decades,
slowly building steam. Only after seeing no ability to effect change,
get redress for grievances, do people finally, in desperation, take up
arms, knowing full well that their likely rewards might just be death
and imprisonment. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people don't go
about courting death like this if there are any redress in sight or
seemed achievable
thru the process they mistakenly call 'Indian democracy', ALMOST
an oxymoron by itself, like 'military intelligence'.
Those who cannot fathom that, are the same people who go about
making the MMS like pithy pronouncements, after the fact.
Was India unaware of what was brewing in Kashmir Ram? Only
the profoundly ignorant or deluded will claim that. Was India unaware
of Assam's discontent, before LFA happened? You tell me.
And what did Indian democracy do to prevent them? To forestall
them? Dilute the discontent? Where was the great Indian democratic
machine? Why could it not not show that it could be counted on to do
what MMS claims it can do now? How is it an iota different from what
it was then?
You show us Ram.
c-da
At 8:47 AM -0500 8/22/05, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
C'da,
> I have said this to the Hurriyat in Kashmir, ULFA in Assam and Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh-there is no grievance that cannot be redressed through democratic means and sustained dialogue,''
**** What a self contradicting statement!
Maybe, I am missing something here. But I don't see any self-contradictory statement here. What is wrong with what the PM is saying. I have even removed my tinted glasses, still don't see a darn thing wrong with the statement. :)
"The Prime Minister made it clear that terror tactics would not be tolerated. ''Faced with terror tactics, the government will have no other option than to fight such groups and their ideology of hatred. Extremism of any form, based on any divisive ideology, cannot be tolerated in any civilised democratic society,'' "
Nor, do I see a problem with the above.
--Ram
On 8/22/05, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have said this to the Hurriyat in Kashmir, ULFA in Assam and Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh-there is no grievance that cannot be redressed through democratic means and sustained dialogue,''
**** What a self contradicting statement!
It would have been whole lot more convincing if MMS could have given an example or two of Indian democracy's problem solving approaches ( I won't even ask forcomplete resolutions) in Kashmir, re: Naxals, re: ULFA, re: Nagas.
But I am sure the PM wouldn't have missed an opportunity to cite them, if he had any.
At 7:14 AM +0000 8/22/05, Bartta Bistar wrote:
If you say people are with you, prove it at the hustings: PM to Naxals
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=76764
HYDERABAD, AUGUST 21: Days after the YSR Reddy government ended a year-long truce with Left wing extremist groups and revived the ban in Andhra Pradesh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today challenged the Naxalites to test their ''popularity'' at the hustings.
If their movement, Singh said in Hyderabad today, truly had people's support, they should try and change the system through democratic means. ''Every political group that claims to represent the interests of people or of a section must test its popularity at the hustings. Go and ask people to vote for you. Come to legislatures and enact the laws that you wish to see in place.''''The power of people in a democracy flows through the ballot box and not from the barrel of gun. I have said this to the Hurriyat in Kashmir, ULFA in Assam and Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh-there is no grievance that cannot be redressed through democratic means and sustained dialogue,'' Singh said at a seminar on ''Press and the Nation' organised by the CPI(M) organ Prajasakti.
The Prime Minister made it clear that terror tactics would not be tolerated. ''Faced with terror tactics, the government will have no other option than to fight such groups and their ideology of hatred. Extremism of any form, based on any divisive ideology, cannot be tolerated in any civilised democratic society,'' he said.
His warning comes on the heels of an upsurge in Naxal violence after a year's respite and two rounds of peace talks. Congress MLA C Narsi Reddy and nine others were killed in Narayanpet on Independence Day.
Singh pointed out that even Gadar, Naxal emissary and balladeer, had admitted to a TV channel that the killing of innocent people did not help win a cause. ''This is an important liberal principle. Our democracy allows us freedom to champion our cause and win people over to our point of view,'' he said
Can read http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=87190 also.
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